Meaning “golden hill,” Tillya Tepe is located in Bactria, an ancient region located in what is now part of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. It is thought the hoard was buried by ...

an Indo-European nomadic people who migrated from northwestern China to Bactria in the 2nd century BCE. The Kushana dynasty ruled from the 1st century CE to the 4th century AD. The empire ...